Today having your early morning breakfast, you will drive south of Kigali heading to Ntarama and Nyamata genocide memorial sites which is roughly a 45 minutes’ drive. Visit Ntarama Nyamata Genocide Memorial and Reconciliation Village with Enclose Africa Safaris. Ntarama’s former Catholic Church is now a memorial site. 5,000 people were massacred there on 15 August 1994 during the Rwanda Genocide. This memorial center is one of six major centers’ in Rwanda that commemorates the Rwanda Genocide. You will later head to visit Nyamata and its surrounding region suffered some of the most extensive devastation, horrifying violence that took place in 1994 against the Tutsi and moderate Hutus.
This is a placed believed as the starting point of genocide in 1994 and over 10,000 of victims were believed to be killed in a catholic church. After visiting Nyamata memorial site, you will proceed for lunch before heading to visit Bugesera Reconciliation Village, Mbyo Reconciliation Village is where perpetrators and victims, murderers and survivors, Hutus and Tutsis, are neighbors, having intermarried one another and trying to live in harmony, after return from prison after 9 years of imprisonment, and they had no place to go, and the government had to build the reconciliation village with partnership with some NGO’s to see these victims can have a home, after asking for forgiveness from the families they harmed. Acquire a proper sense of the place through actively engagement in different activities ranging from agricultural related to interaction with locals, acquiring cooking and weaving lessons from locals and listening to some testimonies from one of the community members in a reconciliation village. The stories are still fresh on these people’s mind, that you will almost shade tears, as you listen and relate the past situation. Never should this happen again. You will later drive back to Kigali with an authentic experience of the real genocide situation after listening to number of the stories with its impact that can be vividly observed. End of the Ntarama Nyamata Genocide Memorial and Reconciliation Village tour.
Items that are included in the cost of tour price.
- Transportation on a 4 x 4 safari vehicle
- Entrance fee to the above mention genocide sites
- En route lunch
- Visit to the reconciliation village
- Services of English speaking driver/guide.
Items that are not included in the cost of tour price.
- The package excludes expenses of personal nature like: lunch, Air fare, Visa, drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, personal shopping bills and cigars.